Boston Vacations

Great chunks of Boston is built on reclaimed land from salt marshes. Even the airport is built on original tidal flats in Boston harbor.
As the city expanded the need to reclaim land became intense.

From 1820–1870 a 580-acre area was transformed from uninhabitable salt marsh to the now fashionable Back Bay area of Boston.

To achieve this staggering feat it took nine car loads of gravel arriving every 45 minutes, day and night, for nearly fifty years! Phew! That’s an astonishing amount of dirt!

But despite all this growth (and dirt), the city of Boston is still small. You can get to most things on your Boston vacations by walking.

And whenever you’ve had enough of pounding the city pavements, then Boston’s subway system is ready to whisk you to the New England Aquarium, Harvard Yard, or the J.F.K. Library. These - and many other sights - are favorite places to visit for my family during our Boston vacations. And I'm going to tell you all about them.

I’ve worked in Boston for 18 years. And during that time I’ve done and seen the best of Boston City, and the surrounding area. So let's discover together the spellbinding sights and sounds of Boston vacations that'll fascinate, absorb, and entertain you.

I’m not going to spend time on the history of the city and the revolutionary war. It’s been plenty done already, and there’s a ton of sites with that kind of information. I’ll mention some snippets as we go along, but give you some other resources if you want to dig deeper.

But I do want to touch on another obsession of Bostonians before I get into the promised top seven Boston vacations list…